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SULFUR CANDLE.

(Application med may 16,'1901.)

(No Model.)

INVENTOR Q/rk'ELMa/f HJSATTORN'EYS improvement.

UNITE@ STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES HARRIS. SHAV, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT I-I. TI-IOINIPSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SULFUR CANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,748, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed May 10,1901. Serial No. 59,612. (No model.)

To all wtom/ t 11i/ay concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES HARRIS, SHAW, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sulfur Candles, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement consists in a sulfur candle having in its upper surface a cavity and a wick arranged with one side surrounded bythe solid mass of sulfur, but with the other side open to or only very slightly separated from said cavity, so that during the consumption of the sulfur by means of the wick lthe sulfur Preferably the wiel;

will flow into the cavity. Will be of annular form and the cavity in the center of the candle.

The improvement also consists in the combination of a container having horizontallyextended circumferential surfaces and a candle cast so as to engage with such surfaces. The horizontally-extending surfaces may be made in the form of outwardly-extending circumferential grooves or inwardly-extending circumferential ribs or their equivalents.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top view of a sulfur candle'embodying the Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in bot-h figures.

A designates a container for a sulfur candle'. This container will preferably be made of sheet metal, and, as here shown, it is cylindrical and has two outwardly-extending circumferential grooves. Preferably the bottom a will be made removable, so that the candle may be formed within the container and the bottom may be subsequently applied. The bottoni is shown as provided with a rim a', adapted to fit tightly over the lower part of the container.

B designates the sulfur candle. Itis shown as having a central cavity Z) and a wick: b', which is embedded on one side in the mass of sulfur forming the candle, but on the other would be produced, and instead of complete grooves or ribs short segments or other suitable indentations or projections Would suffice for engaging the container and the candle.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A sulfur candle having in its upper surface a cavity aud a wick arranged with one side surrounded by the solid mass of sulfur, but the other side open to or only slightly separated from said cavity.

2. A sulfur candle having in its upper surface a central cavity, and a Wick arranged with its outer side surrounded by the solid mass of sulfur but the inner side open to or only slightly separated from said cavity.

3. The combination of a container having circumferential grooves and a sulfur candle having horizontally-extended surfaces which fit in said grooves.

4. The combination of a container, a sulfur candle therein, and means provided in a wall of the container which engage with the candle for holding the candle in the container.

5. The combination of a container serving as a mold, sulfur cast in said container to form a candle, and means provided in the container which is engaged by the sulfur of the candle to prevent the sulfur from leav-4 ing the container after the sulfur has set.

In testimony whereof I have Y signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES HARRIS SHAW.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. CRUSE, J. M. RIEMANN. 

